Ad esempio, non sarebbe di classe essere indipendenti da tutta questa merda per la nostra elettricità ed essere priva di emissioni di carbonio?
L’UE vuole iniziare a costruirli, quindi probabilmente otterremo un sostegno economico.
E dove lo metteremmo… Roscommon?
Lads, just got my gas bill. Can we not just build a nuclear reactor.
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di Shazz89
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Would rather we build way more renewables.
I agree.
The grid in Ireland is too small for a modern nuclear reactor. If it *were* large enough, the only viable place to put it would be adjacent to the largest source of demand, which is Dublin.
There are no commercially available SMR designs available at the moment, so while planning for them is a good idea, relying on them is not possible.
Australia recently decided that their grid is too small for nuclear power.
We have the 2nd highest offshore wind potential of any country on the planet. Even with the massively inefficient conversion rates today to green hydrogen we would have so much to spare we could sell it to the rest of Europe as ammonia or methane, solving 2 problems in one go. We could also become a global power in manufacturing, recycling and maintenance of the turbines, as well as investing in and researching how to make the systems more efficient.
But we’d rather just suck at the teat of the fossil fuel industry instead.
Have you considered 4kw of solar?
Do you trust the planners that brought you the Galway ring road, the consultants who brought you the Dublin metro, and the builders of the new Children’s Hospital to construct a nuclear reactor?
I think we should team up with France to provide capital for some new reactors there, and otherwise invest aggressively in alternative energy sources.
By the time it’s built we’ll all be getting the fuel allowance
Let’s put it in Leitrim
What are the odds BAM would get the contract? Then BAM
The cost would be twice as much as renewables to produce. On argument would be to build more energy connections with mainland EU and buy Nuclear energy at a fraction of the cost to produce it ourselves.
You can’t build a sandcastle in this country without some clown living across the country objecting and you want us to build a nuclear plant?
Cost of a nuclear reactor is absolutely not worthwhile. To compare wind vs nuclear, wind turbines win 100x over, we have the best environment for it.
Just get a tractor and park it in front of some gas bottles. Problem solved.
There is small modular units that could be installed here which I think would be a great thing. Consistent dependable supply of electricity that can be increased or decreased relatively easy depending on solar or wind generation outputs. However since we have a country full of whingers that complain when a new housing estate is going up or businesses trying to start/expand, it will never happen
It would cost €30 billion, and take 20 years to build.
Might be worth checking out solar – I have a fairly modest system and my electricity bill for March was 3 euro. I imagine I’ll get into credit as the days get better and longer.
I also have a battery that I can charge using the night rate, if it looks like the day ahead might be bad for sun.
Yeah cause building a nuclear plant is such a cheap and efficient way of generating power. And the waste we can just throw in the bog
After we’ve been enriching the uranium needed for a decade, the US will declare FFG a terrorist regime and swoop in to rescue us from our oppressors. Then they’ll probably crash 5 aircraft in the scramble to relieve us from our nuclear threat to the world and take our uranium for their own use.
No point, it would take 15-20 years and by that time we’d hopefully have phased out gas and oil, thirty maybe forty years ago there’d have been a point which saddens me because I myself am a big supporter of nuclear energy
We can’t build a metro nor student accommodation without objections from every part of society. While I agree we should push for nuclear power until small scale or thorium nuclear generation becomes more feasible I don’t see it happening.
No party supports it even though greens should.
At this stage I’m in favour of anything that moves us away from fossil fuels.
I’m all for a Toxic Avenger/Class of Nukem High situation.
We could, however the average cost is +€6b to build, and billions more in maintenance. The land needed is ridiculously huge and we need to produce fuel somehow.
It seems like a better use of money than subsidising oil
Longford is the only answer. But imagine the NIMBYs 🍿